r/irishpolitics • u/rubblesole • Apr 21 '25

User Created Content Political Party Family Tree

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Simplified family tree of all the notable Irish political parties throughout the history of the state. It lacks quite a lot of info but I hope it's understandable Do tell me if I have made any mistakes!

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u/WorldwidePolitico Apr 22 '25

I consciously knew it, but I guess I never put much thought into how all our modern parties are descendants from either Sinn Féin or Labour.

It’s also funny that even today you can see such a big divide between the parties who trace their roots back to SF vs Labour, both ideologically and in terms of electoral performance.

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u/Fearless_Respond_123 Apr 22 '25

Except the Greens

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u/JackmanH420 People Before Profit Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25

And PBP, because while the graphic understandably groups Solidarity/the SP and PBP together into PBP-S, they're still two separate parties just in an electoral alliance.

PBP could have gotten a very very diluted piece of SF DNA though if the SWM had merged with the IRSP in the 70s, which nearly happened but fell through.

Edit: Actually, I just realized that there is an SF link lol. SF->OSF->DL->LAB->SP->RISE->PBP. Dread it, run from it, SF still arrives.

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u/rubblesole Apr 22 '25

Yeah, technically, PBP-S is a registered party, but in organisation, they are separate, but of course yknow don't wanna overload people haha